A safety feature designed to protect front-seat passengers from hitting each other in a crash is missing from many American cars. This feature, which includes airbags that deploy in a side-impact crash, can help prevent serious head injuries or death.

The airbags were first introduced in the US but are more widely adopted in other parts of the world. Crash tests in Europe have driven the adoption of these airbags, but similar testing is not done in the US.

Further information on this issue is available from InvestigateTV, including an examination of why these airbags are not more widely used in American cars.